It has been said that if people wish to see change in the world then they must be bold both in action and in speech. At the turn of the twentieth century and the beginning of the modern literature movement the words of James Joyce became embodied the bold architecture of creating change through writing.

James Joyce was born James Augustus Alyosius Joyce on February 2, 1882 in the small Rathgar borough of Dublin, Ireland (Dettmar). James Joyce's family was of meager means as his father was in a constant state of financial and social decline which caused the family to move constantly, "each one less genteel and more shabby than the previous" (Greenblatt). Joyce's mother, Mary Jane Murray Joyce, on the other hand is described by Richard Ellman, James' biographer, as the person who brought peace to the family situation and was a stronghold for Joyce (Dettmar).

James Joyce began his Catholic education at Clongowes Wood College as well as Belvedere College, both of which "were Jesuit institutions and were normal roads to the priesthood (Greenblatt). Joyce then attended University College in Dublin where he studied modern languages (Greenblatt). In the same way that many youth find reasons for rebelling against their present lifestyle and circumstance, so too did James. Yet for James, the rebellion was much more than many would imagine for such a young man. While many young children and teenagers find fault in their parents, Joyce on the other hand "regarded himself as a rebel against the shabbiness and philistinism of Dublin" thus prompting his later writings and justly so all of his writings as centering around topics of his home country (Greenblatt). An interesting point about Joyce that helps to understand his drive and motivation as a writer is that he took it upon himself to learn "Dano-Norwegian in order to read Ibsen and write to him." In one of Joyce's first articles "on the Norwegian Playwright Henrik Ibsen", which was published when Joyce was...

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...JamesJoyce, The Dead
In James Joyce's novella The Dead, we see the author completely change his writing form in the last paragraph. By changing the tone, and switching the diction to portray a darker and detached story it further emphasizes the isolation the character Gabriel feels from the other characters, especially his wife.
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The confusion grew greater and the cabman was directed differently by Freddy Malins and Mr. Browne, each of whom had his head out through a window of the cab. The difficulty was to know where to drop Mr. Browne along the route, and Aunt Kate, Aunt Julia and Mary Jane helped the discussion from the doorstep with cross-directions and contradictions and abundance of laughter. ("The Dead" 2526).
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...INTERDICTION IN “ARABY”, BY JAMESJOYCE
Luciano Rodrigues Lima
Universidade do Estado da Bahia
Universidade Federal da Bahia
FOREWORD
Before beginning my analysis on the story, I remember a pupil that I had in a translation course, which said to have chosen the profession of her life after translating the story by Joyce. And the deposition of the pupil sharpened my curiosity on the work.
Amongst the stories of Dubliners, byJamesJoyce, one possesses special characteristics: – the way it joints the subject and the perspective of the narrator, language and symbology, the duration – it is "Araby". The story has been object of different readings, such as "a passage from the innocence for the knowledge", or "the ironic narrative of an adult on its first love", "a history on the oppression shade of the catholic church in Ireland", "the new search of the Holly Grail for the man of the twentieth century ", "the shock between the dream and reality", "the bourgeois sexuality of the boy threatened by the religion, politics and economy", (this last one of Wallace Gray) and many other possible interpretations.
The meticulous use of each word helps to construct the tone of speech, mix of ironic and dissimulated, as it used to be with every speech that approached the sexuality, in Joyce’s Dublin.
The other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed...

...In the following essay, Garrett offers six perspectives on "The Dead" by applying the principles of six different literary theories.
BIOGRAPHY. Joyce once said of one section of Ulysses, "I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant." Similarly, he inserted in his writings remnants of his own life and environment, so that scholars scour the details of his experience, and the people and places that he knew, for clues to the meaning of his work.
The most famous example in "The Dead" is the tragic love that Nora Barnacle knew in Galway when she was not quite sixteen years old, before she moved to Dublin, met Joyce, and ran off with him. Joyce was jealous of his dead rival, but Nora remembered the love fondly. In a conversation years later she spoke on the subject of "first love": "There's nothing like it. I remember when I was a girl, and a young man fell in love with me, and he came and sang in the rain under an apple-tree outside my window, and he caught tuberculosis and died." The dead boy had worked for the local gas company in Galway where Nora then lived. Joyce not only used that part of Nora's life as a model, but saw Nora as Gretta. He once wrote to Nora: "Do you remember the three adjectives I have used in "The Dead" in speaking of your body. They are these:...

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...JAMESJOYCEJamesJoyce&#8217;s &#8220;Clay&#8221; and &#8220;Eveline&#8221; were two stories impacted by the break with his family, church, and his country. In this paper I will give examples to show that my thesis is correct. I may also enlighten you by telling you the story of an excellent Irish writer.
James Augustine Joyce lived from 1882 to 1941. He was an Irish novelist and poet, &#8220;whose psychological perceptions and innovative literary techniques make him one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century&#8221; (Encarta, 1). &#8220;His first book, Chamber Music, consists of thirty-six highly finished love poems. In his second work, Dubliners, a collection of fifteen short stories, Joyce dealt with episodes of his childhood and adolescence and with family and public life in Dublin, Ireland&#8221; (Encarta, 1). &#8220;Joyce employed symbols to create what he called an &#8220;epiphany&#8221;, the revelation of an emotional or personal truth&#8221; (Encarta, 1). &#8220;Using experimental techniques to convey the essential nature of realistic
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situations, Joyce merged in his greatest works the literary traditions of realism, naturalism, and symbolism&#8221; (Encarta, 1). &#8220;In 1941, suffering from a perforated ulcer, Joyce dies in Zurich on January thirteenth&#8221; (Encarta, 1)....